Is Sustainability Still Possible? The conversation continues at sustainabilitypossible.org.
On to a New Year!
Wrapping up the year, the Transforming Cultures blog, and sharing my thanks!
Nurturing a Sustainable Childhood
Worldwatch Europe’s new report provides valuable insights into how to turn our consumer kids into guardians of sustainable living.
Share Spray for All Your Community-Building Needs
Here’s a little lesson on how we don’t need magic to build community, we just have to see the world a bit differently.
Oppa Gandhi Style
Gangnam Style has taken the world by storm, and with it, so has a celebration of the hyper consumeristic lifestyle. It’s time for a new video that celebrates political action and simple living. Yes, we’re talking “Gandhi Style.”
Finding Ways to Sell Degrowth–and Profit in the Process
Degrowth is coming, whether we want it or not. But for the entrepreneurial, here are some ways to profit from the transition.
Life at (a cluttered, stuff-filled American) Home
What do you get when a team of anthropologists team up to study the stuff found in the homes of 32 American families?
Brand + Vandalism = Brandalism
24 artists appropriate billboards to challenge consumerism through the new Brandalism Project.
Youth Edition of Transforming Cultures Now Published!
UNESCO Catalunya has just produced a youth edition of Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability in 4 languages. Check it out!
The Colonization of Public Spaces By OOH
The Out of Home (OOH) Advertising Industry has spread its tentacles into nearly every nook and cranny outside your front door.
The Story of Change!
The new Story of Stuff Project film “The Story of Change” is out! And reminds us that we can’t consume our way to a sustainable society, but we’ll need to flex our citizen muscles and take political action.
Play Catan: Oil Springs this World Environment Day
Celebrate World Environment Day by organizing a game of Catan: Oil Springs, and have fun wrestling with environmental challenges!
Visiting the Great Ecotopia Beyond
Let’s offer thanks to the Earth for lending us the wisdom and passion of Ernest Callenbach.
The Club for Degrowth
To achieve sustainable prosperity, overdeveloped countries will need to degrow their economies. And fast.
Still Running the Numbers: Chris Jordan’s Continuing Effort to Illustrate the Sustainability Crisis
Chris Jordan continues to make bold art with deep sustainability themes, including a new look at plastic pollution of the oceans with Gyre II.
Offering Gratitude To Get Some Extra ZZZs
Recent studies find that expressing gratitude leads to fewer aches and more restful slumber. With tonight’s sleep in mind, let me offer many thanks to those who’ve helped the Transforming Cultures Project over 2011!!
Uncle Sam Says Garden…and Eat Vitamin Donuts
Eat Vitamin Donuts, Save Sugar, Garden More, Eat More Fish. These are just a few of the recommendations of the U.S. government over the past century. One they forgot: don’t take money from food companies.
What’s In Your Go Bag?
What would you take if you had to retreat from a raging fire or impending flood? A change of clothes? Water purification tablets? A flashlight? Or a bottle of wine and block of cheese?
CDC Is Hungry for Braaaainsss
Zombies are now promoting the CDC’s disaster preparedness guide. But not as well as they could be. Here are a few tips for the CDC’s newest henchmen to reach even more eyes, hearts, minds, and of course, brains of the American people.
Lord of Recycling: An Eco-parody
“You Shall Not TRASH!” So sayeth Gandalf in the newest epic, “Lord of Recycling.” Watch it at Transforming Cultures and see a great new eco-parody of “The Lord of the Rings” and a powerful example of viral social marketing.
Oil Discovered on the Island of Catan
The Transforming Cultures Project is proud to release a new sustainability education scenario for the world renowned board game, The Settlers of Catan. The scenario Catan: Oil Springs is available at www.oilsprings.catan.com